Foreign Policy Magazine on THe World's Top Social Networking Sites

Of all publications, Foreign Policy has an article listing the top global social networking sites.  If nothing else, this means the social networking buzz is everywhere.

The article is called "The World's Top Social Networking Sites".  It may require a subscription - I can't tell.  I subscribe to the magazine and the site, but that seems to make little difference in terms of what I can and can't get. 

I think the article is meant to describe sites that are doing well outside of the US, but they don't say that.  Anyway, their top six are: 

1. Orkut:  popular in Brazil and India.  Owned by Google.
2. Facebook: they list a collection of countries where it is popular. 
3. Hi5 - popular Latin America and Mongolia.
4. SkyRock Blog - popular in French speaking countries.
5. Friendster - popular in southeast asia.

Myspace, which is of course larger than all these sites - maybe even all these sites combined - isn't listed.  Not sure why. 

The broader point is that online Internet access and online social networks are truly global. 

Comments

[Rachael]

I actually don't think it is unusual at all for Foreign Policy to have an article about social networking. I agree that it means social networking is on the tips of everyone's tongue.

Social networking is changing the landscape of small business as well. Social networking will enable the globalization of small businesses by breaking language barriers and getting people in contact with each other who would have never previously had an opportunity to do business.

Case in point... I actually have used http://importexport.konnects.com to find a granite supplier from India that I sell to contractors. More than likely, I would have not been able to find this supplier if I had not used the internet.

We are at the tip of the iceberg in regards to where the internet will take humanity. Imagine the significance of making a telephone call when it was first invented, and multiply that by 1000 and then you can see how the internet will affect every person on this planet.

[steve]

Rachel: Thanks for the link to konnects.com. I hadn't seen it.

I agree about the impact of social networks - we have a section on it in our most recent report.

Steve